The latest episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent took on the Duke Lacrosse team rape case. When NBC was producing the show, this would have been a tricky premise for them to carry off (seeing as the real life case resembled a bad episode of of L&O). With the USA Network team, it proved to be a disaster. This episode contained: A working class [...]
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Purtek’s essay – http://thehathorlegacy.com/juxtapositions-in-scenes-of-sexual-violence/ – made me think of two CSI episodes, one Las Vegas and one New York, featuring sexualised attacks respectively on Catherine and Stella. But while Purtek’s post highlights scenes that are completely unalike, this one is more the “couple of big differences” effect. The Similar: Both start off as unconscious, having possibly been raped; both, when examined, prove not to be. [...]
Courtney E. Martin has posted an article on Alternet asking if we should look past the men who use abortion politics as an attempt to control women, in order to embrace male pro-choice allies who are also traumatized by abortion choices? At least, that’s what I got out of it. The article is difficult to sum up; it’s not “what about the menz”, but it [...]
I’ve just re-watched (twice) the first season of Cagney & Lacey on DVD, and I’m going to be writing a series on it. To introduce it, I wanted to give some context first. And explain why 80′s TV set me up to be so disappointed with what came later. The Fight to make a Female Buddy Show Cagney & Lacey was developed in response to [...]
Since I’ve criticized Law & Order: SVU without citing examples in the past, I promised a while ago to watch an episode and write about it. Today I finally got around to doing that. I know this show can do better than the episode I saw today, so I’m not representing this as absolutely typical. It’s just a good example of when they fall well [...]
At this site, we usually stick to the topic of how women are being (mis)represented in film and TV, because that’s our chosen focus. We often reference in passing how other groups are being slighted, too, but we don’t talk about it in depth. I’m going to make an exception because I’ve had a lot of positive things to say about the treatment of women [...]
Naturally, Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent are facing the possibility of cancellation while Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has already been renewed. Fans have started a petition to keep Criminal Intent on the air, but Dick Wolf seems more concerned about the old series. I’ll state my bias up front just so you know. For me, the original series jumped [...]
